Come on guys, lets not act like frigging creationists here. Your all getting crazy at scientists but are any of you guys actually climate scientists with the qualifications to tell me *why* you think the science is wrong.
The science has become so well established that acting like creationists is the only option they have left. (Creationists have the same problem.)
In another thread I posted a couple of common arguments that creationists and global warming deniers both use to rationalize ignoring scientists. They also share arguments for ignoring the science itself:
"If you can't do it in the lab, it isn't science." (Here's wondering whether they ever pause to consider how many entire branches of science they define out of existence with that claim.)
"If your theory can't predict $TRIVIALDETAIL then it's useless."
Basically, when you want to reject well established facts there are only so many ways to rationalize doing so.
So... do you get extra sins forgiven on Sunday if you get on the internet on Saturday and tell the heathens that they should be as ignorant as you are?
(Were you a bad boy this week, or do you do this every weekend?)
But Microsoft never admits to a mistake. They are probably doubling down on it in Blue, rather than fixing it. It's a sure sign of too much monopoly power.
The same can be said about GNOME, though they don't exactly have monopoly power. I think developers just think it's more fun to make "cool" new stuff, than to keep polishing the old reliable, usable stuff.
Plus MS needs the gimmickry to drive sales. Who would shell out money for W8 if it was perceived as W7 with some problems fixed?
What's driving most of the annoyance is the fact that software is treated the same way consumer electronics always has been. We foolishly think we have to have the latest and greatest, and the vendors are more than happy to oblige our stupidity.
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How much extra power is this going to use?
What's is the story here?
This is Slashdot: The story is "bitcoin something something".
going to indefinitely suspend its bitcoin stories?
The Higgs boson was also wrong in its view that Stephen Hawkings doesn't exist.
Come on guys, lets not act like frigging creationists here. Your all getting crazy at scientists but are any of you guys actually climate scientists with the qualifications to tell me *why* you think the science is wrong.
The science has become so well established that acting like creationists is the only option they have left. (Creationists have the same problem.)
In another thread I posted a couple of common arguments that creationists and global warming deniers both use to rationalize ignoring scientists. They also share arguments for ignoring the science itself:
"If you can't do it in the lab, it isn't science." (Here's wondering whether they ever pause to consider how many entire branches of science they define out of existence with that claim.)
"If your theory can't predict $TRIVIALDETAIL then it's useless."
Basically, when you want to reject well established facts there are only so many ways to rationalize doing so.
If it's so probable, then why isn't there evidence of more than one independent kind of life here?
Is there only one way it can work?
Probably the kind that got started first (LAWKI) ate the prototypes for all the latecomers.
Though perhaps an independent strain or two do exist in some isolated somewhere.
As contrasted with "uneducated guess work"...
If creationists listened when someone explained something, talkorigins.org wouldn't exist.
So... do you get extra sins forgiven on Sunday if you get on the internet on Saturday and tell the heathens that they should be as ignorant as you are?
(Were you a bad boy this week, or do you do this every weekend?)
What has computer source code got to do with the behavior of complex molecules?
I've had potato soup, tomato soup, and gazpacho soup, but never primordial soup.
Given the utter absence of evidence, you could easily make any claim about souls you wish.
Actually, finding out how life got started wouldn't tell us diddley about evolution.
Four words: slash, dot, week, end.
If you want to deny reality, the first thing you have to do is convince yourself that the experts aren't really experts, to "justify" ignoring them.
Arguments I've actually heard:
Evolution denier: You can't trust biologists because they've all been brainwashed by their education.
Global warming denier: You can't trust climatologists because they've all been brainwashed by their education.
Evolution denier: You can't trust biologists because they're all part of a conspiracy to deny the existence of God.
Global warming denier: You can't trust climatologists because they're all part of a conspiracy to bilk the government for research money.
Arctic ice extent is normal.
If by "normal" you mean "what you would expect if global warming was proceeding faster than the predictions".
What makes you think Limbaugh doesn't know GW is happening?
I don't know about "long range", but the medium-range projections have almost always proven to be too optimistic.
I suspect IPCC feels political pressure to tone down the bad news.
Clearly they didn't do OBL any good.
...Manning is a traitor, aided and abetted the enemies of our country.....
He deserves the firing squad.
One man's traitor is another man's patriot.
'nuff said.
Apparently you haven't heard of the hot new game everyone spends their time on these days: Pjorn.
Even your momma probably plays it, when no one is watching. (Sorry - I didn't mean to conjure any images.)
This is the company that used to make you click "Start" to stop. Looking for sanity in their products is the road to insanity.
But Microsoft never admits to a mistake. They are probably doubling down on it in Blue, rather than fixing it. It's a sure sign of too much monopoly power.
The same can be said about GNOME, though they don't exactly have monopoly power. I think developers just think it's more fun to make "cool" new stuff, than to keep polishing the old reliable, usable stuff.
Plus MS needs the gimmickry to drive sales. Who would shell out money for W8 if it was perceived as W7 with some problems fixed?
What's driving most of the annoyance is the fact that software is treated the same way consumer electronics always has been. We foolishly think we have to have the latest and greatest, and the vendors are more than happy to oblige our stupidity.